VOIS - Area 2 - Module 1

  1. MODULE TITLE

Module 1: Building the ability to work with people from different communities, disciplines, and functions
  1. AUTHORS

Michael Wildt, Sandra Hogeforster, Anna-Maria Czarny, Christian Wildt
  1. SHORT DESCRIPTION

Open innovation requires working with people from outside of your organization. Often these people come from different cultures, backgrounds, and communities. Working with such diverse teams is a crucial component for success in innovative teams. To prevent diverse backgrounds to be an obstacle, certain aspects must be considered.

After reading this module the reader will receive an overview of different aspects of cultures, how to work with them, and use diversity as an advantage. In addition, different psychological concepts will be explained that facilitate working in teams and reaching the maximum potential of each co-worker. Certain features of your organizational structure will be questioned. To ensure the success of any open innovation strategy with workers from outside of your company cross-functional teams have to be built and work well together. Lastly, setting the right goals and the right long or short-term focus must be thought through when applying any innovation strategy. Especially when it comes to open innovation strategies supervisors must be ready for new perspectives. The ability to work with people from different communities, disciplines, and functions can be learned or enhanced and is the fundament of any open innovation strategy.
  1. LEARNING OBJECTIVES

    Upon completing this module, you should be able to:

  • A general understanding of the concept of culture and how to treat other cultures.
  • How to create cultural synergy
  • Which way is the best to build and work with a cross-functional team
  • How can SMEs cooperate with large companies or Universities
  • How to benefit from multiple people working on a project and when a group starts to work inefficiently
  • How to set goals that will increase the performance of a team without creating pressure and causing distress among team members.
  1. Training Content
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REFERENCES

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Byrum, J. (2016, October 27). The Case for Open Innovation in Agriculture – AFN. https://agfundernews.com/case-open-innovation-agriculture

Ott, D. L., & Michailova, S. (2018). Cultural Intelligence: A Review and New Research Avenues. International Journal of Management Reviews, 20(1), 99–119. https://doi.org/10.1111/IJMR.12118

Peyrols Wu, C., & Ng, K. Y. (2021). Cultural Intelligence and Language Competence: Synergistic Effects on Avoidance, Task Performance, and Voice Behaviors in Multicultural Teams. Applied Psychology, 70(4), 1512–1542. https://doi.org/10.1111/APPS.12287

Solarte-Montufar, J. G., Zartha-Sossa, J. W., & Osorio-Mora, O. (2021). Open Innovation in the Agri-Food Sector: Perspectives from a Systematic Literature Review and a Structured Survey in MSMEs. Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and Complexity 2021, Vol. 7, Page 161, 7(2), 161. https://doi.org/10.3390/JOITMC7020161

Thomas, D. C., Elron, E., Stahl, G., Ekelund, B. Z., Ravlin, E. C., Cerdin, J. L., Poelmans, S., Brislin, R., Pekerti, A., Aycan, Z., Maznevski, M., Au, K., & Lazarova, M. B. (2008). Cultural intelligence: Domain and assessment. International Journal of Cross Cultural Management, 8(2), 123–143. https://doi.org/10.1177/1470595808091787

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